Crackdown against adulteration mafia intensified in KP.

PESHAWAR -- The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety and Halal Food Authority has intensified crackdown against adulteration mafia, discarding a large number of unhealthy food items in various operations in the province on Thursday.

Director Operations Food Safety Authority Dr Azmatullah Wazir said that crackdowns were being conducted on directives of Director General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety Authority Sohail Khan to ensure quality food items to people.

He said that the food safety authority's team paid a surprise visit to bazaar in Mardan and seized several unhealthy food items amounting to 1200 kg, adding three sweet factories, two warehouses and five shops were also sealed for violating hygiene norms and manufacturing substandard items.

Similarly, in a campaign launched against adulteration of milk on the instructions of Food Secretary Khushal Khan, the Food Safety Authority along with the Livestock Department destroyed more than 300 liters of adulterated milk in Upper Dir, Lower...